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Index Card Games for ESL

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This book has all kinds of activities to improve the vocabulary, phoneme awareness, reading, and speaking for ESL students. Chapters include "Person/Place/Thing", "Matched Pairs," "Sound and Spell," "Scrambles," "Categories," "Scenarios," and "Pyramids." Each chapter describes several games as well as variations, and each game that is included also has 3 levels. I also like how the games go beyond vocabulary practice. In the "Scrambles" chapter, students are asked to organize words into sentences, sentences into stories, and paragraphs into stories. Clark also includes games that spark conversation. In the "Scenario" chapter, character descriptions are given for students to act out under certain themes, such as murder mystery or airplane trip.

I teach ESL at the upper elementary level and adults. Because index cards you create yourself do not have too many images on them, this book would probably be most useful to students who have learned to read, even just a little, in at least one language (their native language or English).

The most useful aspect of this book is that he also suggests ideas for other topics, demonstrating the flexibility of all the games included. This book is a great resource and an inspiration for future activities in my classroom.

I was looking forward to the delivery of this book and it did not disappoint. I teach in 2 multi-level ESOL classrooms and this book has great, easy to use ideas that are fun and challenging. I love this book!